Category: Opinion

A campaign billboard showing candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Professor Charles Soludo, also known as Cee Cee Soludo,, also known as Cee Cee Soludo, also known as Cee Cee Soludo,, is seen along the road ahead of next November 6 governorship election in Akwa, Anambra State in southeast Nigeria, on November 3, 2021. […]

Road repair The decision of the Federal Government lately approving and mandating the newly registered Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to construct 21 different roads at a whopping sum of N621 billion across the six geo-political zones of the federation is curious and fraught with controversies. The policy has expectedly raised lots of eyebrows […]

By Joel Ademisoye Wow! What is this President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s policy on hiking the prices for electricity meters – single-phase and three phase respectively- to be sold to the consumers in the country? What are the economic rationale and financial justification for the Federal Government of Nigeria in raising the prices of pre-paid meters […]

By Martins Oloja I hope that our dealers who have been parading themselves as leaders are keeping well enough to read the great writings that just appeared on the wall of Anambra-2021. I also hope that they heard the remarkable people of Anambra State loud and clear when they sounded their trumpet of hope to […]

The most alarming and worrisome factor in the invasion of the home of Supreme Court Justice Mary Odili perhaps is that none of the multiple security agencies in the country is accepting responsibility for it; until three days ago when the police paraded 14 men who Force Spokesman Frank Mba described as “impostors unknown to […]

By Ayo Olukotun “Until philosophers rule as kings in their cities or those who are nowadays called kings and leading men become genuine and adequate philosophers…cities will have no rest from evils.” – Greek Philosopher, Socrates, in Plato’s Dialogue In the early hours of Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that a former Governor […]

By Femi Adesina As you read this piece, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team are in the French capital, attending the Paris Peace Forum, a gathering of about 30 Presidents and heads of governments from around the world. The Nigerian leader is among the few that were asked to deliver a speech. On Wednesday afternoon, […]

An important political landmark, the Anambra State 2021 governorship election, has been conducted, won, and lost. The ballot, won by Charles Soludo of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, was described as a litmus test for the umpire and the security agencies. Agitations – often violent – by the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra had […]

People walk to rescue workers from the rubble of a 21-storey building under construction that collapsed at Ikoyi district of Lagos, on November 1, 2021.(Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) The sudden termination of 44 human lives occasioned by the collapse of a 21-storey building under construction on Gerard Road, in the affluent Ikoyi […]

Supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) / AFP Photo / Sefan Heunis The separate impulses in the polity arising from the contradictions of state policies are beginning to assume dramatic dimensions. It is a fact that a section of the Igbo people represented by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) desires self-determination to […]